Since Google joined Twitter back in February, the twitter.com/google account alone has over 1,290,098 followers – and if you want a specific category or even region from Google – well there are lots to choose from - now over 50+ accounts (listed below), but is this just part of a much bigger plan?

Some saw this as a courting ritual especially when the rumours kicked off in April that Google was going to buy Twitter for $1 billion – but after that calmed down, Google emerged the following month with “Wave” and the exciting promise of Twave.(when will this obsession of “tw” prefix neologisms end?) Now, this form of integration / mash up makes sense: Google Wave and Twitter are both forms of real-time communication after all, so bringing them together makes perfect sense – or is it just a way of consuming Twitter by stealth…?

The advantage that Twave offers from within Google Wave is that it appears you can manage your tweets like you would email, with replies, archiving, and even Google Wave’s remarkable playback feature. We have already seen Twitter attempt to improve its interface toward something that so many other 3rd party applications have managed to do better, but the prospect of Google’s designers and interface expertise behind this would make this a very compelling communication tool.An advantage for Charities and NGO’s

To many early adopters, Twitter Search has been the tool of choice for real time, trending topics – especially in the immediate world of international news, politics and humanitarian crises and events, where Charities and NGO’s gain advantage over traditional broadcast channels and search engines, which generally take longer to formulate and in a search engines case, index information. Without the real time feed that Twitter offers, Google has to independently index each Twitter user periodically to look for updates. This is obviously a lot slower, not to mention very expensive from a computing resource (and climate) perspective.

In terms of the nascent real time search space, any advantage Twitter currently has over Google would be negated but subsuming them – or taking this feed via the back door – perhaps getting the golden eggs without having to buy the Goose…

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Google said back in February :

“Like lots of you, we’ve been drawn into Twitter this year. After all, we’re all about frequent updates ourselves, and there’s lots happening around here that we want to share with you. Of course, we enjoy watching, and contributing to, the tweetstream (we hope you find our tweets useful, too). Because there are many programs and initiatives across the company, we’ve got a number of active accounts. Here’s a list of the current ones. We’ll update this list from time to time.”

3d TV is a wierd one. Anything that requires people to wear something will, in my opinion, reduce the reach and effectiveness on passive, lean-back entertainment. The same can’t be said for gaming though.

Although I doubt 3dTV will win-over the masses until there’s a way to do it without glasses, It works for films, event TV and games, where people will make an effort.